WUCF-FM (89.9
MHz
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) is a listener-supported
radio station
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of the
University of Central Florida
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in
Orlando
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,
Florida
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,
United States
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.
[http://wucf.org/aboutwucf.htm About WUCF-FM] The station is one of
Central Florida's two
NPR
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member stations, along with
WMFE-FM
WMFE-FM (90.7 MHz) is a listener-supported FM radio station in Orlando, Florida, owned by Community Communications, Inc. WMFE-FM is Central Florida's National Public Radio (NPR) member station, with a format of news and information. Most pr ...
.
WUCF-FM is co-owned and operated by the University of Central Florida.
Programming
The station broadcasts a 24-hour schedule of jazz and blues music along with news programming from broadcast studios on the main campus of UCF. The station is a part of the
University of Central Florida College of Arts and Humanities
The University of Central Florida College of Arts and Humanities is an academic college of the University of Central Florida located in Orlando, Florida, United States. The dean of the college is Jeffrey Moore, M.M.
The College of Arts and Human ...
and employs several university students.
In addition to its own line-up of jazz programming blocks, the station airs
syndicated jazz music programming from National Public Radio and other distributors including ''
Jazz Inspired
''Jazz Inspired'' is a weekly radio series hosted by Judy Carmichael. The program is broadcast on more than 170 radio stations throughout the United States and Canada, as well as Sirius XM Satellite radio's NPR Now. The one-hour broadcast featur ...
'', ''
Jazz Profiles
''Jazz Profiles'' was an American radio show produced by NPR and hosted by jazz singer Nancy Wilson. It featured hour-long retrospectives on the lives of famous jazz musicians, or sometimes on famous albums such as Miles Davis' ''Kind of Blue' ...
'', ''JazzWorks'' and ''Jazz Night In America''. The station also airs reruns of news programs ''Metro Center Outlook'' and ''Global Perspectives'' from its sister channel
WUCF-TV
WUCF-TV (channel 24) is a PBS member television station in Orlando, Florida, United States. Owned by the University of Central Florida (UCF), it is the region's sole PBS member station, reaching an estimated population of 4.6 million people in it ...
. Since 2002, WUCF has hosted the syndicated
blues rock
Blues rock is a fusion music genre that combines elements of blues and rock music. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums, sometimes w ...
program ''Smokestack Lightnin.
See also
*
List of jazz radio stations in the United States
This is a list of terrestrial, satellite and internet radio stations which identify themselves as playing jazz in any of its forms (mainstream, traditional, fusion, acid, and smooth, among others), or have substantial jazz programming, that can be ...
References
External links
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University of Central Florida
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Jazz radio stations in the United States
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1978
1978 establishments in Florida
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